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Robotic System Aims to Democratize Colonoscopy
Apr. 25, 2024—In the second installment of Discoveries in Medicine’s two-part interview with Keith L. Obstein, M.D., co-developer of a robotic colonoscopy system, he maps the path to the marketplace.
VISE Spring Seminar with Nicholas Kavoussi, MD 3.28.24
Mar. 25, 2024—VISE seminar to be led by Nicholas Kavoussi, MD Assistant Professor of Urology Vanderbilt University Medical Center Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024 Time: 11:45 a.m. Lunch, 12:00 p.m. start Location: Stevenson 5326 Title: Leaving No Stone Unturned: Improving Endoscopic Kidney Surgery Abstract: Ureteroscopy for treatment of urinary calculi has been utilized since the development of the pulsed...
VISE affiliates awarded $2.3M NIH grant to combat childhood blindness
Aug. 1, 2023—A team of Vanderbilt engineers are working to breach the critical barrier to timely clinical intervention of blindness in preterm infants. One of the major causes of childhood blindness is a rapidly growing retinal vascular disease called Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP). “Clinical intervention options for ROP exist, but our limited ability to detect ROP and...
Engineering doctoral students experience paradigm-shifting clinical training in surgery and intervention
Aug. 27, 2021—The results are in: Five cohorts of Vanderbilt engineering doctoral students have experienced ‘paradigm-shifting training’ in surgery and intervention.
Custom, virtual world highlights annual VISE symposium
Jan. 6, 2021—For the last eight years, on the second Wednesday in December, poster boards were set up at the crack of dawn in the lobby of Light Hall. Students, postdocs and faculty members would trickle in a few hours later to hang the poster themselves. By afternoon, the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering’s Annual Surgery,...
VISE Spring Seminar – Steven Hetts, MD
Feb. 8, 2019—VISE Spring Seminar to be led by Steven Hetts, MD Professor of Radiology, Chief of Interventional Neuroradiology at the UCSF Mission Bay Hospitals, University of California, San Fransisco Date: February 28, 2019 Location: Stevenson 5326 Time: 12:25 p.m. start, 12:15 p.m. lunch Title: ChemoFilter and MARC: A Tale of Two Translational...
VISE Summer Seminar: Kenneth B. Bader, PhD
Jul. 24, 2018—VISE Seminar to be led by Kenneth B. Bader, Ph.D. Department of Radiology and the Committee on Medical Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Date: Thursday, July 31, 2018 Location: Stevenson Center 5326 Time: 12:10 p.m. start, 12:00 p.m. lunch Title: Passive Cavitation Imaging for Monitoring Histotripsy-Enhanced Thrombolysis Abstract:...
Past Symposiums
May. 1, 2017—Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 , 2022 2022 11th Annual Surgery, Intervention, and Engineering Symposium Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2022 Digital program Keynote: Martha Morrell MD Clinical Professor of Neurology, Stanford University Chief Medical Officer, NeuroPace Title: Crossing the academia-industry bridge: Delivering a brain-responsive...
VISE Seminar: Computational Modeling to Enable Therapeutic Intervention: Applications in Radiation Oncology
Jan. 9, 2017—Title: Computational Modeling to Enable Therapeutic Intervention: Applications in Radiation Oncology Dual Speaker Format: Albert Attia, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, VUMC and Jared A. Weis, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, VU Date: Thursday, January 12, 2017 Time: 12:20pm start, 12:15pm lunch Place: Stevenson Center 5326 Abstract: Patients with intracranial metastasis treated...